Motivational Quotes

Words

Each group of words is processed by the brain as a single thought. And because the words are viewed in context, you retain them more accurately than if you processed the words individually.

- Saperstein, Rose

Best Quotes about Words

The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.

Walesa, Lech

Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word -- heed well! -- this mine and thine.

Silesius, Angelus

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

Cather, Willa

For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.

Eliot, T. S.

On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.

Phillips, Wendell

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Proverb, Chinese

Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.

Lehman, David

The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

Hemingway, Ernest

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A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

Twain, Mark

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

Twain, Mark

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One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

Waugh, Evelyn

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My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the Other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute.

Burroughs, William S.

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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Joubert, Joseph

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We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

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Our great men have written words of wisdom to be used when hardship must be faced. Life obliges us with hardship so the words of wisdom shouldn't go to waste.

L'Chiam

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Like an arrow to its mark flies the word good man's word.

Platen

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An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.

Twain, Mark

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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbors, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

Butler, Samuel

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Why do social workers use five-syllable words when dealing with juvenile delinquents?

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Each group of words is processed by the brain as a single thought. And because the words are viewed in context, you retain them more accurately than if you processed the words individually.

Saperstein, Rose

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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.

Yeats, William Butler

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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

Ellison, Ralph

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The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

Mohammed

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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Card, Orson Scott

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Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

Connolly, Cyril

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I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Rohn, Jim

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Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called weasel words. When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a weasel word after another there is nothing left of the other.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.

Stalin, Joseph

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The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

Woolf, Virginia

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As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language; every human use of words that is joyful, or honest or new, because experience is new... But as a Black poet and writer, I hate words that cancel my name and my history and the freedom of my future: I hate the words that condemn and refuse the language of my people in America.

Jordan, June

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You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

Carnegie, Dale

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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them --isn't this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?

Havel, Vaclav

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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What do you call a boomerang that doesn't work? A stick!

Kirchenbaum

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When I look at you, the wheels of time stand still vs. Your face could stop a clock